Operating Systems

Command to get wear percentage on an SSD

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The Get-StorageReliabilityCounter cmdlet gets the storage reliability counters for the specified disk or physical disk. These counters include information about such things as the device temperature, errors, wear, and length of time the device has been in use. Example PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-PhysicalDisk | Get-StorageReliabilityCounter | select wear https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/storage/get-storagereliabilitycounter?view=windowsserver2019-ps

SanDisk SSD Dashboard

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SanDisk SSD Dashboard Support Information The SanDisk SSD Dashboard helps users maintain peak performance of the SanDisk SSD in Windows® operating systems with a user-friendly graphical interface for the user. The SanDisk SSD Dashboard includes tools for analysis of the disk (including the disk model, capacity, firmware version, and SMART attributes) and firmware updates. Download: SanDisk … Read more

Duplicati 2.0

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Free backup software to store encrypted backups online. For Windows, macOS and Linux Many Backends Duplicati works with standard protocols like FTP, SSH, WebDAV as well as popular services like Backblaze B2, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon S3, Google Drive, box.com, Mega, hubiC and many others. https://www.duplicati.com/

How to Extend/Reduce LVM’s (Logical Volume Management) in Linux – Part II

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From TecMint.com – https://www.tecmint.com/extend-and-reduce-lvms-in-linux/ Previously we have seen how to create a flexible disk storage using LVM. Here, we are going to see how to extend volume group, extend and reduce a logical volume. Here we can reduce or extend the partitions in Logical volume management (LVM) also called as flexible volume file-system. Extend/Reduce LVMs … Read more

Check Flash Wear

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How to check flash wear via PowerShell within Windows 10 To check the wear value of an internal SSD drive via PowerShell within Windows 10, launch an elevated PowerShell session and use the following command. Get-PhysicalDisk | Get-StorageReliabilityCounter | Select Wear Not all drives accurately report this value to Windows. In some cases, the counter … Read more

How to Backup and Restore the VMware ESXi 6x Configuration

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How to Backup the ESXi Configuration (https://graspingtech.com/backup-vmware-esxi-6-5-configuration/) First of all, since this tutorial will be using the ESXi command line, you will need to connect to the host using SSH. If you don’t know how to enable SSH, you can learn how in the following post: How to Connect to an ESXi 6.5 Host using … Read more

How to enable OS X screen sharing (VNC) through SSH?

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Source: http://technotes.twosmallcoins.com/?p=279 Putty is a good SSH client for Windows. 1) SSH into your remote OS X machine with an administrator’s log in and password. 2) Enable Remote Desktop (a.k.a. Screen Sharing, a.k.a. VNC) with this command: sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -clientopts -setvnclegacy -vnclegacy yes -clientopts -setvncpw -vncpw mypasswd -restart -agent -privs -all … Read more